Introduction Book Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone No. Of Pages: 309pages Publisher: Scholastic Author: J. K. Rowling Overview: -Harry Potter is an 11 year old boy who has lived with the Dursley family ever since his parents died in a car crash.

For some reason the family has always mistreated him. On his 11th birthday a giant man named Rubeus Hagrid hands him a letter telling him that he has been accepted as a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry learns that his parents were wizards and were killed by an evil wizard Voldemort, a truth that was hidden from him all these years.He embarks for his new life as a student, gathering two good friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger along the way. They soon learn that something very valuable is hidden somewhere inside the school and Voldemort is very anxious to lay his hands on it. II.

Body a. Character •Harry Potter: He’s an eleven-year-old skinny kid, with unruly black hair and a weird scar on his forehead. He’s also an orphan who doesn’t remember his parents and is stuck living with the obnoxious Dursleys – his Muggle aunt, uncle, and cousin. Ronald Weasley: Ron is Harry’s first and best friend at Hogwarts.

•Hermione Granger: She’s loud and bossy and butts in all the time. •Albus Dumbledore: Dumbledore is the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. •Voldemort: Voldemort was a wizard who went bad. •Rubeus Hagrid: Hagrid is the Groundskeeper of the Hogwarts. •Minerva McGonagall: She’s a deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts.

b. Setting – Atmosphere: mystery and terror – Physical Location: Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry c. Plot – Mr. Dursley, a well-off Englishman, notices strange happenings on his way to work one day. That night, Albus Dumbledore, the head of a wizardry academy called Hogwarts, meets Professor McGonagall, who also teaches at Hogwarts, and a giant named Hagrid outside the Dursley home.Dumbledore tells McGonagall that someone named Voldemort has killed a Mr. and Mrs.

Potter and tried unsuccessfully to kill their baby son, Harry. Dumbledore leaves Harry with an explanatory note in a basket in front of the Dursley home. Ten years later, the Dursley household is dominated by the Dursleys’ son, Dudley, who torments and bullies Harry. Dudley is spoiled, while Harry is forced to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs.

At the zoo on Dudley’s birthday, the glass in front of a boa constrictor exhibit disappears, frightening everyone. Harry is later punished for this incident.Mysterious letters begin arriving for Harry. They worry Mr.

Dursley, who tries to keep them from Harry, but the letters keep arriving through every crack in the house. Finally, he flees with his family to a secluded island shack on the eve of Harry’s eleventh birthday. At midnight, they hear a large bang on the door and Hagrid enters. Hagrid hands Harry an admissions letter to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Harry learns that the Dursleys have tried to deny Harry’s wizardry all these years. The next day, Hagrid takes Harry to London to shop for school supplies.First they go to the wizard bank, Gringotts, where Harry learns that his parents have left him a hefty supply of money. They shop on the wizards’ commercial street known as Diagon Alley, where Harry is fitted for his school uniform. Harry buys books, ingredients for potions, and, finally, a magic wand—the companion wand to the evil Voldemort’s. A month later, Harry goes to the train station and catches his train to Hogwarts on track nine and three quarters.

On the train, Harry befriends other first-year students like Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, a Muggle girl chosen to attend Hogwarts.At school, the first-years take turns putting on the “Sorting Hat” to find out in which residential house they will live. Harry fears being assigned to the sinister Slytherin house, but he, Ron, and Hermione end up in the noble Gryffindor house.

As the school year gets underway, Harry discovers that his Potions professor, Snape, does not like him. Hagrid reassures Harry that Snape has no reason to dislike him. During their first flying lesson on broomsticks, the students are told to stay grounded while the teacher takes an injured boy named Neville to the hospital.Draco Malfoy, a Slytherin bully, snatches Neville’s prized toy and flies off with it to the top of a tree.

Harry flies after him. Malfoy throws the ball in the air, and Harry speeds downward, making a spectacular catch. Professor McGonagall witnesses this incident. Instead of punishing Harry, she recommends that he play Quidditch, a much-loved game that resembles soccer played on broomsticks, for Gryffindor. Later that day, Malfoy challenges Harry to a wizard’s duel at midnight. Malfoy doesn’t show up at the appointed place, and Harry almost gets in trouble.

While trying to hide, he accidentally discovers a fierce three-headed dog guarding a trapdoor in the forbidden third-floor corridor. On Halloween, a troll is found in the building. The students are all escorted back to their dormitories, but Harry and Ron sneak off to find Hermione, who is alone and unaware of the troll. Unwittingly, they lock the troll in the girls’ bathroom along with Hermione. Together, they defeat the troll. Hermione tells a lie to protect Harry and Ron from being punished. During Harry’s first Quidditch match, his broom jerks out of control.

Hermione notices Snape staring at Harry and muttering a curse.She concludes that he is jinxing Harry’s broom, and she sets Snape’s clothes on fire. Harry regains control of the broom and makes a spectacular play to win the Quidditch match.

For Christmas, Harry receives his father’s invisibility cloak, and he explores the school, unseen, late at night. He discovers the Mirror of Erised, which displays the deepest desire of whoever looks in it. Harry looks in it and sees his parents alive. After Christmas, Harry, Ron, and Hermione begin to unravel the mysterious connection between a break-in at Gringotts and the three-headed guard dog.They learn that the dog is guarding the Sorcerer’s Stone, which is capable of providing eternal life and unlimited wealth to its owner and belongs to Nicolas Flamel, Dumbledore’s old partner.

A few weeks later, Hagrid wins a dragon egg in a poker game. Because it is illegal to own dragons, Harry, Ron, and Hermione contact Ron’s older brother, who studies dragons. They arrange to get rid of the dragon but get caught.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione are severely punished, and Gryffindor is docked 150 points. Furthermore, part of their punishment is to go into the enchanted forest with Hagrid to find out who has been killing unicorns recently.In the forest, Harry comes upon a hooded man drinking unicorn blood. The man tries to attack Harry, but Harry is rescued by a friendly centaur who tells him that his assailant was Voldemort. Harry also learns that it is Voldemort who has been trying to steal the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Harry decides that he must find the stone before Voldemort does. He, Ron, and Hermione sneak off that night to the forbidden third-floor corridor. They get past the guard dog and perform many impressive feats as they get closer and closer to the stone. Harry ultimately finds himself face to face with Quirrell, who announces that Harry must die.Knowing that Harry desires to find the stone, Quirrell puts Harry in front of the Mirror of Erised and makes him state what he sees. Harry sees himself with the stone in his pocket, and at that same moment he actually feels it in his pocket. But he tells Quirrell that he sees something else.

A voice tells Quirrell that the boy is lying and requests to speak to Harry face to face. Quirrell removes his turban and reveals Voldemort’s face on the back of his head. Voldemort, who is inhabiting Quirrell’s body, instructs Quirrell to kill Harry, but Quirrell is burned by contact with the boy.

A struggle ensues and Harry passes out. When Harry regains consciousness, he is in the hospital with Dumbledore. Dumbledore explains that he saved Harry from Quirrell just in time.

He adds that he and Flamel have decided to destroy the stone. Harry heads down to the end-of-year banquet, where Slytherin is celebrating its seventh consecutive win of the house championship cup. Dumbledore gets up and awards many last-minute points to Gryffindor for the feats of Harry and his friends, winning the house cup for Gryffindor.

Harry returns to London to spend the summer with the Dursleys. E. Theme: Home is where the Hogwarts is.

In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, school’s not just where you study and learn cools spells; it’s a real home. Harry may start out living in a house with the Dursleys, but it doesn’t feel like home to him. To abuse the immortal words of Burt Bacharach, that “house is not a home. ” At Hogwarts and in Gryffindor in particular, Harry finally feels a sense of belonging and comfort. Responsible adults care about and look after him, and he has good experiences, good meals, and good friends. It’s not sugar coated – there are still small and large-scale enemies – but for the first time Harry finds pleasure and safety in his living space.

III: Conclusion A. What are the 5 lines, events, places that affects you and why? The 5 events, lines, places that affect me are the Hogwarts school of Witches and Wizardry, when Harry and Ron search the girls’ bathroom to find Hermione when the troll rampaged in their school. When Hermione protect Harry and Ron from being punished, When Hermione protects Harry in the cursed of Professor Snape in the middle of Quidditch match, I liked this parts because Harry, Ron, And Hermione shows their comfort from each one of them.B. What the novel contribute to you? In what way/s? In contribute to me that in this world no one can leave alone, even they don’t belong to your family they can be also part of your life. C.

Is the novel worthwhile? Would you recommend it to others? The novel is worthwhile, I would recommend it to others because in this novel they could learn how to give importance to their friends or love ones. D. What are things that you don`t like in the novel? If you given a chance what part will you change to make it better?The things that I don’t like in this novel when the Dursley’s family didn’t show their love to Harry and when they didn’t tell Harry about the letters that was sent by Hagrid to their house for Harry.

If I was given a chance to change this I would let the Dursley’s family to treat Harry as their nephew. E. Generally what can you say about the novel? I can say to this novel that even this was obviously not so realistic it can make you learn many values that can make you a good friend to others. St. Mary’s Academy Guagua, Pampanga Submitted by: Cierwin Torres 10-IC Submitted to: Mr. Jefferson Bacani

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